Whether a fire or a dangerous natural event, every second counts when escaping a building safely in an emergency – and that includes incidents of power failure. The Warema SecuKit range for roller shutters, window awnings and external venetian blinds provides reliable and quick solutions for alternative emergency routes.
Emergency and rescue routes can save lives and prove crucial to the safety of people inside both public and private buildings. This doesn’t just apply to fire situations; they are also important in preventing panic during power failures. Requirements for emergency routes are increasing all the time, increasing the requirements for sun shading systems too. Different regulations and guidelines may apply depending on the region or federal state. To err on the side of caution, emergency routes should be planned using the SecuKit range by Warema. This also ensures compliance with building regulations, which may require an emergency operation mode (independent of the power supply) to be provided for each residential unit.
SecuKit solutions provide an additional option to manually operate motorised privacy and sun shading products. They ensure that the route out of a building and emergency service access are opened up in seconds – independent of the power supply. In day-to-day life, external venetian blinds, roller shutters and window awnings fitted with SecuKit can be easily operated using an intelligent control system. They are unobtrusive, extremely reliable, simple to use, reasonably priced and require no maintenance. They are installed and commissioned in the same way as standard blind, shutter and awning models.
Additional emergency route with external venetian blinds
The SecuKit safety feature for external venetian blinds is intuitive and straightforward: in an emergency, the external blind is simply raised by hand. The end rails lock at a predefined height laterally in the guide rails. Even with motorised external venetian blinds, the emergency route is freed up in seconds independent of the power supply. Temporary manual operation does not affect the use of the motor. It can be quickly reset by performing a control run of the external venetian blinds in the upper end position and then the lower end position; preconfigured settings remain unchanged. SecuKit can be used with blind widths of up to 1700 mm.
SecuKit has many specific benefits: SecuKit for external venetian blinds does not require any additional planning or installation and is integrated into the facade inconspicuously. There is also no need for a feed through, preventing thermal bridges. SecuKit can be retrofitted at any time simply by exchanging the external venetian blind.
Tried-and-tested solution for roller shutters and window awnings
Warema roller shutters and window awnings with SecuKit come with a motorised drive and are operated via an intelligent control system. Their most appealing feature is the additional belt operation option for emergency situations: in the event of power failure, the lowered blind can be pulled up in just a few movements, clearing the emergency route in seconds. Temporary use of the belt does not affect the motor system and all settings are retained.
Even indoors, the belt fastening system remains unobtrusive as no additional belt winder is required. The sun shading system’s movement behaviour remains the same even if SecuKit is installed, ensuring that it blends into the facade and all sun shading products can be raised and lowered in the same way. SecuKit can be used for surfaces of up to five square metres for roller shutters and up to seven square metres for window awnings.
source: newsroom.warema.com
